Identity Management plays a crucial role in many application contexts, including e-governments, e-commerce, business intelligence, investigation, and homeland security. The variet...
—The FRIENDS system developed at LAAS-CNRS is a metalevel architecture providing libraries of metaobjects for fault tolerance, secure communication, and group-based distributed a...
Research can rarely be performed on large-scale, distributed systems at the level of thousands of workstations. In this paper, we describe the motivating constraints, design princ...
In this paper we present the work undertaken by the Advanced Interfaces Group at the University of Manchester into the design and development of a system to support large numbers ...
Steve Pettifer, Jonathan Cook, James Marsh, Adrian...
Designers of distributed systems often rely on replicas for increased robustness, scalability, and performance. Replicated server architectures require some technique to select a ...